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One of the fundamental effects that clothing has is to identify and categorise people in the minds of everyone else around them. It serves as one of our basic ways of aligning ourselves with others, a way of belonging to a certain tribe. While some designers tend to beat to the drum of being on-trend,…

Luxury goods consumers found a high-end fashion fix in one of Londonâ€™s fashionable hotel lobbies following the installation of The Love Machine by Selfridges. In a collaboration for London Fashion Week just gone between Love magazine and the Saint Martins Lane Hotel, the 32-slot luxury vending machine was installed in the lobby of the hotel…

Well known fashion writer Hywal Davies explores in his new book how designers design, how they initiate their ideas and what the journey to the finished product looks like. Sketchbooks are the books where designers chart their journey. Designers included in this book are 4 stocked, Boudicca, Lagerfeld for Chanel, Dries Van Noten, John Galliano,…

We’ve hadÂ a relativelyÂ sanguine eyeÂ on Swedish label ‘Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair’ for quite some time now but compliments where they due, they pulled a recentÂ interesting look book from their bag of tricks… The collection is a Burton-esque hybrid of traditional British and Japanese dress, with a little sportswear mixed in. A leather corset is distorted into…

The ‘Godfather of Punk’ was buried in London last week, drawing crowds of fans toÂ line the streets as hisÂ funeral processionÂ passed through London’s Camden Town. ThereÂ wasn’t exactly anarchy on the streets asÂ the Sex Pistols creatorÂ might once have commanded, but when his fans said farewell to Malcolm McLaren last week, at least they did it withÂ a snarl.…

Great Britainâ€™s having a style moment. 4 favourites Boudicca are just one of the six British designers that have beenÂ unleashed on Kensington Palace in London as part of the â€˜Enchanted Palaceâ€™ exhibition that opened last month. In association with Wildworks, the Palace features Boudicca, Vivienne Westwood, William Tempest, Stephen Jones, Aminaka Wilmont and Echo Morgan…